Cruise passenger in pirate attack

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1:56am (UK)
Cruise passenger in pirate attack


A British tourist told how he watched helplessly as pirates fired a rocket launcher at his luxury cruise liner.

Solicitor Norman Fisher, 55, from Hampstead Garden Suburb in north London was on the Seabourn Spirit 100 miles off Somalia in Africa when the attack from small boats took place.


The first many bleary-eyed passengers knew of the dawn raid was when captain Sven Erik Pedersen came on the public address system and said: "Stay inside, we're under attack."

Terrified passengers, including 18 from Britain, were told to go to the restaurant as the sound of a grenade and gunfire from two 25ft rigid inflatable boats filled the air.

Mr Fisher said: "I looked out of the window and saw a small boat with about five people in it about 20 yards away.

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[thinkingwoman]

1. Those aren't real pirates

Real pirates would dress better and steal themselves a bigger boat.

Those are common criminals in a bass boat.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. Terrorists. Real weapons. Really brazen.

This is not a silly story with Pirates of the Caribbean sloshing around your TV set. This is serious.